• Do you need an ORM? - Do you need an ORM for your project given you use a relational database? And not just some lightweight like Dapper but a big one: NHibernate, Entity Framework, Hibernate? I’d like to address this question with this post. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]

Permalink | From 30 November 2015 to 06 December 2015 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:11:15 GMT

• The LiveScribe 3 Smartpen [Product Review] - The pen is mightier than the sword. Or so they say. However, this smart LiveScribe 3 pen may just be mightier. Picture a typical meeting… You’ve got a whiteboard, notepad, your phone and hopefully the right people in the room. You may even have some funky planning poker cards*. All good so far. Now […] [Learn CQRS and Event Sourcing]

Permalink | From 23 November 2015 to 29 November 2015 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:09:40 GMT

• Domain-centric vs data-centric approaches to software development - In this post, I’d like to make a comparison of two approaches that prevail in the world of (mostly enterprise) software development: domain-centric and data-centric. If you read my last post (or any other post, quite frankly), you might have noticed I personally gravitate towards the domain-centric approach. Although this article is intended to be an impartial one, keep in mind that my bias can leak out. Domain-centric vs data-centric approaches The main difference between the two approaches is in the way people adhering to them treat software. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]

Permalink | From 16 November 2015 to 22 November 2015 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:11:15 GMT

• Is SQL a good place for business logic? - <TL;DR> No, it isn’t. While SQL is a Turing-complete language and we can use it to encode any business logic we want, placing business (domain) logic into SQL leads to a less maintainable solution comparing to one that uses an OO or functional language. Because of that, I advocate to limit the use of SQL to read-only queries (which can potentially contain business logic, that’s fine) and simple CRUD statements where possible. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]

Permalink | From 09 November 2015 to 15 November 2015 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:11:15 GMT

• SQL vs NoSQL: you do want to have a relational storage by default - The concept of NoSQL databases has been around for a while, but there still are quite a few misunderstandings regarding the topic of relational SQL vs NoSQL databases. In this post, I’d like to clarify the most common misconceptions and discuss the primary use cases for each of them. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]

Permalink | From 02 November 2015 to 08 November 2015 | Last updated on: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:11:15 GMT